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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hobbes classify a person who speaks for himself?
(a) As a diplomat
(b) As a politician
(c) As an author
(d) As a boaster

2. What do counsels for the aristocracy generally do?
(a) Serve no useful purpose
(b) Last for days or even months
(c) Excite the multitude to create change
(d) Offer plans for governing change

3. How does Hobbes define injustice of an action?
(a) accidents
(b) a lawsuit
(c) premeditation
(d) injury

4. How does Hobbes classify discourse that cannot be proven?
(a) opinion
(b) scientific
(c) attitudes
(d) theorems

5. Why does Hobbes say the multitude cannot protest against the sovereign?
(a) They will be beheaded.
(b) They have no voice.
(c) They will destroy the commonwealth.
(d) They voluntarily entered into the covenant.

6. What happens in an assembly that cannot happen with a monarch?
(a) A monarch has to listen to the nobles.
(b) A monarch cannot disagree with himself.
(c) An assembly never has to come to a conclusion.
(d) An assembly wears whatever clothes they want.

7. What does Hobbes define as moral virtues?
(a) conforming, working, learning, and manufacturing
(b) fearing, obeying, ordering, and supplanting
(c) justice, gratitude, modesty, equity, and mercy
(d) sharing, educating, explaining, and contributing

8. What does Hobbes say ends a discourse?
(a) A person speaks a different language.
(b) A person learns the answer to a question or he/she gives up.
(c) A person runs out of anything to say.
(d) A person grows tired of talking and shuts up.

9. Why does Hobbes say that having friends, followers, and servants is the greatest power?
(a) With friends, followers, and servants one does not need to work.
(b) Having these, one does not need anything else.
(c) Being liked and respected makes people good managers and motivators.
(d) Having these, one does not need to go to war.

10. What two systems does Hobbes define within a commonwealth?
(a) private and political
(b) democrat and republican
(c) open and closed
(d) tyranny and ordinary

11. When does Hobbes suggest it is not logical to follow the Golden Rule?
(a) when there are no other people around
(b) when no one else is following it
(c) in times of war
(d) during a natural disaster

12. How does Hobbes say a commonwealth is taken by acquisition?
(a) In fear of death, men surrender to the new commonwealth
(b) Adjacent territory is annexed by vote.
(c) People ask to join a bigger commonwealth.
(d) Money is exchanged for the new territory.

13. To be sure one has found reason, what is necessary?
(a) The soverign must be consulted.
(b) It must stand the test of time.
(c) The negations must be discarded.
(d) All affirmations and negations must be considered.

14. Why does Hobbes say men will give up some of their freedoms?
(a) when it does not cost them anything
(b) when they are given other freedoms in return
(c) when they go to prison
(d) to seek protection for their lives and those of their family

15. When is there nothing illegal or unjust in any action done by anyone?
(a) when the commonwealth is too spread out
(b) when no one is looking
(c) when there are guidelines
(d) when there is no commonwealth

Short Answer Questions

1. What, left uncontrolled, does Hobbes say can lead to misery and unhappiness?

2. What option does Hobbes say everyone has?

3. Where can a monarch go for advice?

4. What is a fundamental interest on the part of a counselor?

5. How may a commonwealth be formed?

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